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Zou Jingzhi

Zou Jingzhi is a fiction writer, poet, essayist, screenwriter and playwright. He is a founding member of the Chinese theatre collective Longmashe. ‘The Excitements of Spring’ is an excerpt from a novel-in- progress.

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Fiction | Issue 169 padlock
Fiction | Issue 169 padlock

The Excitements of Spring

Zou Jingzhi

‘As a young man, I wanted to learn how to love, but in the end, I did nothing. I wanted to torture myself, but didn’t know where to begin.’

Fiction by Zou Jingzhi, translated by Jeremy Tiang.

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